John Leonard (born 1965) is an Australian poet.
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He was born in the UK, and from 1984 to 1987 studied at the University of Oxford
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. In 1991 he moved to Australia. He currently lives in Canberra
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, Australia, and was poetry editor of the quarterly '' Overland'' from 2003 to 2007. In 2020 he was a juror for the Montreal International Poetry Prize.
Works
Poetry
* ''Unlove'' (1991)
* ''100 Elegies for Modernity'' (1997)
* ''Jesus in Kashmir'' (2003)
* ''Braided Lands'' (2010)
* ''A Spell, A Charm'' (2014)
* ''Think of the world: Collected Poems 1986-2016'' (2016)
* ''Wordfall'' (2019)
Criticism
* ''The Way of Poetry'' (Three Pines Press)
History
* ''The Reawakening: Religion and the Future of Humanity'' (2015)
* ''The True History of Pocahontas'' (2015)
References
External links
Author websiteInterview with author
1965 births
Living people
Australian poets
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